Steve Harmison will return for England tonight, and spinner Graeme Swann also gets an outing. Harmison missed Sunday's victory over Middlesex due to illness but comes back in for Ryan Sidebottom, who is suffering from a calf strain.

Swann has been drafted in due to the influence of spin so far in the tournament, with James Anderson left out of the final warm-up ahead of Saturday's multimillion pound match against a Stanford Superstars team.

Evening all. Lawrence here. Before I embark on a pseudo-philosophical rant about the merits of tonight's match, some hot news arrives from Andy Bull, who has relinquished his pedalo for long enough to point out that a bug has swept through the England dressing room, ruling out Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Luke Wright. This means, believe it or not, that Alastair Cook will play for an England XI in a Twenty20 match (what happens if the bug is still doing its worst come Saturday?!) and Ravi Bopara will play too. Steve Harmison was already in the side in place of the perenially injured Ryan Sidebottom, but the England XI - which boasts the shortest tail in living memory - will comprise the following blokes: Alastair Cook, Matt Prior (wk), Owais Shah, Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Ravi Bopara, Samit Patel, Graeme Swann, Steve Harmison.

9pm Well, well, well. This bug adds an intriguing twist to a game that was otherwise vying with T&T v the Stanford Superstars as the most meaningless fixture in a miserably contextless week. Because what happens if Cook, whose place on the plane has been widely derided, blasts a quick 50 tonight? Could England then reasonably drop him for the loadsamoney slog on Saturday? There's already speculation that one of the senior seamers - Anderson? - will have to miss out to accommodate the extra spinner (Graeme Swann), although I'd have thought Luke Wright must be just as likely a candidate for the chop. Decisions, decisions!

A topical email to while away the time while you all hold your breath "What are the odds that Stanford will be offed by an irate cricketer convinced the billionaire has been taking advantage of his missus?" asks Tom van der Gucht. "The clips of him grinning and bouncing Mrs Prior on his knee while surrounded by other wags was reminiscent of a generic 1940s movie melodrama plot where a wealthy film producer (or other such billionaire) gets murdered by a worked up young actor/handyman/chancer after he dallied with their special lady friend." It was!

The toss The Trinidad & Tobago captain Daren Ganga has won the toss and has stuck England in on one of the slowest pitches outside my old back garden in Oxford. KP says England would have batted anyway, so everyone's happy.

Oh, and England have nicked a couple of players from Middlesex - Steve Finn and Dawid Malan - as their drinks carriers. Cook, incidentally, will bat at No9, which rather blows my doomsday scenario out of the water. And it's Bopara at No8. Ian Bell and Matt Prior to open, then...

9.10pm Sky have just highlighted an alarming trough in the pitch... on a fast-bowler's length. As if conditions at the, er, SCG (I kid you not!) were not treacherous enough for batsmen and fielders, we now have a dip at precisely the point where Steve Harmison would like to land it. Yikes.

9.20pm There may be some rain in the Antiguan air, and I can safely say a late finish would not suit my plans over the next 24 hours. I have to be up at 4am for India v Australia. Anyway, here's Mac Millings to deflect your attention. "I'm looking forward to the excuses on Saturday after England, having cruised through the match, suddenly bottle it at the end, and lose. 'It was tough for the lads,' said losing captain Kevin Pietersen. 'Thepressure of playing solely for national pride and the shirt, and forno money at all (it turns out), got to them.'"

And here come the Trinidad team. The atmosphere sounds as dead as it has done since this sorry week got under way on Saturday. Still, mustn't grumble...

1st over: England XI 3-0 (Bell 2, Prior 1) T&T open with their quickish leggie Samuel Badree, who proved to hard to manoeuvre yesterday. Ian Bell defends his first two balls, then tucks his third into a midwicket gap for a single. Judging by the three games so far, a total of 140 would be a triumph, even against a team that may still be feeling the effects of their money win over Middlesex. Matt Prior gets going first ball with a leg-side nudge for one before Bell keeps the strike with a tuck to short backward square. A predictably steady start.

2nd over: England XI 6-0 (Bell 4, Prior 2) Ravi Rampaul, yesterday's four-wicket hero, is a more conventional opening bowler - and he's even lost a bit of the padding he was carrying when West Indies toured England in 2007. Bell advances on his first ball to take a single into the covers and then Prior has a swing and a miss at a slightly wider one. It really is a sluggish pitch - Prior gives Rampaul the charge, but timing is tricky and the result is a scrappy single towards mid-on. And then the next ball creeps along the ground, possibly after hitting the down slope of that dip I mentioned earlier. Undeterred, Bell pushes the last ball of the over to mid-off for a quick single. Not a sniff of a boundary yet.

3rd over: England XI 7-0 (Bell 4, Prior 2) Badree continues and finds startling bounce with his second delivery, a quicker one. Bell was aiming to cut but ended up nowhere near it. A leg-side wide is a handy addition to England's total, but - sheesh! - this guy whistles through the overs. An OBO writer's nightmare as well as Ian Bell's. Just that wide off the over.

4th over: England XI 17-0 (Bell 8, Prior 3) A gift for England as Rampaul's first ball is a bouncer that flies over everyone and is signalled wides - five of the blighters! - by Simon Taufel. Prior then connects with a rasping square-drive, but Justin Guillen at cover cuts off what looks like a certain boundary: the result is a single. And then Bell does find the ropes, freeing his arms outside off stump and clattering Rampaul in front of backward point. Shot! That was a better over for England: 10 off it. But the bounce remains Jekyll and Hyde. Or possibly Curtly and Courtney. "Sorry if I'm not the first to point this out, but the problem with a cricketer being named after Ivan Lendl is that he was never any good on grass," says Mac Millings, taking approximate aim at T&T's Lendl Simmons.

5th over: England XI 25-0 (Bell 15, Prior 4) If the pitch is sluggish, why not take it out of the equation? So, perhaps, thinks Bell as he turns a Badree delivery into a juicy half-volley and lofts him down the ground for six. "If Alistair Cook is playing at No9, why is he in the squad at all?" asks Tim Colyer. "Unless of course, this series is all about money and he's being rewarded for being a test player. But in that case why is Monty (or indeed Vaughan) not in the squad?" They wanted to take the same squad to India, basically. But I agree it looks odd.

WICKET! Prior c Ramdin b S Ganga 4 (26-1) Sherwin Ganga strikes with his second ball - an absurd off-break that trampolines off the uneven pitch and takes the edge as Prior tries to cut. A smart catch by Denesh Ramdin, mind...

6th over: England XI 28-1 (Bell 17, Patel 1) Interesting move, this: Samit Patel is batting at No3, which may give us a clue to Saturday's batting line-up. Three off the over. "Has anyone suggested that the players agree to split the money equally around the squad?" asks Peter Lucas. "Could be good for KP's (and Moores's) much-vaunted teen spirit (sorry "team")." Er...

7th over: England XI 34-1 (Bell 19, Patel 4) Amit Jaggernauth is the third T&T spinner to enter the fray and he's worked for leg-side singles by both batsmen. But it really does take a Swiss-clock piece of timing to find the ropes here. Patel takes two with a chop to deep extra cover, then makes it six off the over with another off-side scythe.

8th over: England XI 45-1 (Bell 20, Patel 14) Here's Richard Kelly, who looks very stiff indeed. Apparently he's recently been injured, and you can tell. Patel helps his first two balls to fine leg for four, then tucks his third for a leg-side single. Those are gift-wrapped goodies a fielding captain can ill-afford on a pitch as niggly as this. Bell helps himself to a single (leg-side, naturally), before Kelly finally lands one closer to off stump than leg. Patel is so shocked he shovels it to mid-off, then keeps the strike with a lofted single down the ground that deserved more. "I'm repeating myself, having just posted something similar on Andy Bull's blog," writes Phil Sawyer, "but I take exception to the idea that the England players are saying that they're playing for anything except money. In the Matt Prior interview, for example, most of the talk was about the peculiar pressures of being the one who might drop the $20 million catch (probably something that's praying on Prior's mind in particular). Sorry, not witty, just pertinent. Must try harder." Au contraire.

WICKET! Patel b Badree 16 (47-2) Patel waddles down the pitch at Badree, takes a swing and misses. The ball, a toppie, clatters into the top of off and England are two down.

9th over: England XI 48-2 (Bell 20, Shah 1) Still no Pietersen. Owais Shah is the new man and immediately punches a single off the back foot to deep cover. Badree finishes with 4-0-15-1, which for a spinner on this dung heap is pretty well par for the course.

WICKET! Shah c S Ganga b Simmons 5 (52-3) The ball after miscuing a pull over short fine leg for four, Shah spoons one up in the air towards midwicket. For a moment you fear for Sherwin Ganga, what with the lights being rubbish and that, but he clings on. Well done, sir.

10th over: England XI 55-3 (Bell 22, Pietersen 1) It's a good job England bat so deep today. Alastair Cook may get his chance yet! Meanwhile, Bell dabs Simmons to third man for a single before Pietersen gets going with a trademark frantic first run. As 10-over scores go so far in this Super Series, 55 for three isn't the worst.

11th over: England XI 63-3 (Bell 23, Pietersen 7) Jaggernauth continues as the rain outside my window in Guardian Towers begins to resemble snow. Never wanted to go to Antigua anyway, where Pietersen moves outside off stump and sweeps Jaggernauth square and oh so hard for four. Great shot! He follows that with a cut for two, then moves across his stumps in advance, unnerving the bowler to the extent that he sends down the most disgusting leg-side wide imaginable. Pietersen, wouldn't you know it, is making things happen.

12th over: England XI 69-3 (Bell 26, Pietersen 10) Bell's lofted single over the covers off Simmons takes him to 24 off 33 balls. It sounds slow but he's actually played very well given the variables batsmen have to cope with here. Pietersen spoons a slower one just over the head of cover for a fortuitous single before Bell lifts one in the air to deep extra for one more. And then Pietersen is dropped, not disgracefully by any means, but Daren Ganga - running back at extra and at full stretch - may reflect that the match could have been won there and then. England are going for it now. Or trying to.

13th over: England XI 90-3 (Bell 34, Pietersen 21) Right, here goes. Possibly. Pietersen charges Jaggernauth and hoists him over cow corner for six: that was strength rather than timing. The next ball is a full-toss, which Pietersen deposits down the ground for four. He then tries the switch-hit but misses and the ball runs away for a wide that is turned into two as Pietersen scampers through. Bell's job now is to give his captain the strike, which he does immediately with a scurry and loft for one. Pietersen returns the favour and then Bell makes a mockery of my demand by hammering Jaggernauth down the ground for six! Twenty-one off the over! Sluggish? Pah.

WICKET! Bell c Rampaul b S Ganga 37 (100-4) The best partnership of this Stanford circus comes to an and two balls after Pietersen slog-sweeps Ganga for six. Bell tries to go inside-out over extra cover but ends up picking out Rampaul on the fence. No floodlight trouble with that one. "Why does Sherwin Ganga have two pieces of electrical tape on one side of his neck?" wonders Richard O'Hagan, who must know I have no idea about the answer. "Was he going for the Chanderpaul look and missed?" Expect so, yes.

14th over: England XI 101-4 (Pietersen 29, Flintoff 0) Bell, 37, by the way, took 41 balls, which was a lot better than it sounds.

15th over: England XI 106-4 (Pietersen 33, Flintoff 1) KP and Fred: in theory, this is the dream Twenty20 pairing. It's just a shame conditions are not in their favour. Even so, Pietersen flicks Simmons's first ball to long leg for two, then gives Flintoff the strike with a work to midwicket for a single. But Flintoff can make nothing of his first two deliveries, before steering his third to third man for a single. Five off the over makes it a decent over for T&T.

16th over: England XI 116-4 (Pietersen 40, Flintoff 1) Back comes Rampaul: you suspect England will enjoy the extra pace on the ball, especially Flintoff. As it turns out, Pietersen fails to score off the first three deliveries before mowing the fourth back over the bowler's head for a monstrous six. And then Rampaul oversteps, which means one to the total and a free hit to KP. He's hard enough to bowl to when there's a chance of a wicket... but Rampaul holds his nerve and Pietersen swishes at fresh air only. Chuckles all round. But would you believe it! Rampaul oversteps again. Pietersen helps it to deep extra for a single, which means it's Flintoff's turn to have a free crack. And - YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH - the free hit is a no-ball too! Flintoff fails to score off it, but he'll get a second chance now. But no: Flintoff fails to pick up a short one and a farcical over yields 10 runs, but none of them off the three free hits served up by Rampaul. Here's Richard O'Hagan again. "If you are thinking it is a bit quiet tonight, it is because Gary Naylor, Jeremy Theoforth, Lynn Bashbald and Rafa Taylor are all in a pub somewhere near Elephant and Castle, following a screening of Jeremy's magnum opus, 'Following' and what was described in the programme as 'An Audience With Jeremy' and by Taylor as 'Listening to Theobobbles witter on again'." So that explains it. Naylor lives!

17th over: England XI 121-5 (Flintoff 1, Collingwood 1) England are still on course for 140-145 here, which really ought to be a match-winning total.

18th over: England XI 132-5 (Flintoff 8, Collingwood 5) Simmons's first four balls yield five runs before Flintoff advances on the bowler like a nightclub bouncer and swats him down the ground for six.

WICKET! Collingwood c Simmons b S Ganga 6 (134-6) Another good catch in the deep as Collingwood tries to hit Sherwin Ganga towards Montserrat and picks out Simmons at deep midwicket. He has four for 20 now.

19th over: England XI 137-6 (Flintoff 10, Bopara 1) A cracking over as Ganga finishes with four for 23 from his four overs. I still think England will have just enough though.

20th over: England XI 141-6 (Flintoff 12, Bopara 2) Rampaul begins the final over with a trio of valuable dot balls to Flintoff, who mows and misses outside off. It's like Groundhog Day, but more predictable. The fourth ball is a pinpoint yorker that Flintoff somehow digs out for an off-side single, before Bopara smacks a single to long-off. The next ball, interestingly, is signalled as an off-side wide by Taufel, despite the fact Flintoff had moved a country mile outside his off-stump and the batsmen scamper through. And then Bopara swings and misses. Phew. T&T fought back well in the last two overs after Pietersen's onslaught but I make England favourites. "Why are we doing this if Naylor isn't here?" asks Mac Millings. "Why are the teams even playing if He is not watching? And why haven't guardian.co.uk/sport provided Him with a gold iPhone for His long service to the cause, so that He can email in any time, from anywhere?" Believe me, Mac, the man doesn't need a gold iPhone to get in touch...

A penny for my thoughts It will be fascinating to see how Steve Harmison goes. If he can locate that little trough, all hell could break loose.

Another penny England are practising their high catches under those pesky lights. T&T had no problems with them earlier, so there are no excuses. At all. Oh no.

1st over: Trinidad & Tobago 2-0 (Simmons 1, Guillen 1) need 142 Samit Patel may never again open the bowling for England, so let's enjoy this while it lasts. And he almost strikes with his second ball as Lendl Simmons gets in a tangle on the sweep and Patel goes up for - well, what exactly? Lbw? Caught behind off the glove? Asad Rauf is unmoved. Just as weirdly, that delivery went through the top of the pitch, which is little short of a disgrace. Simmons works a leg-side single third ball, exposing the left-handed Justin Guillen, who pinches a tidy off-single from his second delivery. Two off the over will suit England.

2nd over: Trinidad & Tobago 4-0 (Simmons 1, Guillen 1) need 142 Things are rather quicker at the other end: here's Harmison. His first ball is resolutely in the channel and he doesn't concede a run until his fourth ball. Even that is a leg-bye. Who said Harmy couldn't be a force in Twenty20/on a cabbage patch! Simmons pulls just in front of Pietersen at mid-on, then scampers through for a leg-bye. That means Harmison has just bowled the first maiden of the Super Series. What would the odds have been on that, eh? Eh? "So, did you pay yourself a penny for your own thoughts?" asks Mac Millings. "You should try charging more - an extra income stream could prove useful in the current wintry economic climate." I'll suggest it to the editor.

WICKET! Guillen c Prior b Swann 1 (5-1) Oh dear. Guillen tries to reverse-thrash Swann and is hit high on the right arm before the ball loops up to Prior. He's not out, surely! But Asad Rauf nods his head and Guillen walks off. So what's happened to the referral system? Why hasn't Rudi Koertzen, the third umpire, pointed out the error? Staggering!

3rd over: Trinidad & Tobago 15-1 (Simmons 2, Bravo 10) need 142 Darren Bravo begins with a four and a straight six off Swann, who will surely only be denied a place in Saturday's match by a complete shocker here. Ten in three balls isn't a great way to back up a dubious wicket.

4th over: Trinidad & Tobago 26-1 (Simmons 10, Bravo 13) need 142 Wow! Simmons pulls Harmison high and handsome for four, then helps himself to an easy single to long leg. T&T have responded to that umpiring error as if Rudi had insulted all their mothers. Simmons then pulls for three before Bravo, who played so nicely against Middlesex last night, on-drives for three more. Harmison, after beginning with a maiden, has just leaked 11 in that over. "Re: WAGgate," says Nath Jones. "What I don't understand is why Emily Prior sat on Stanford's lap in the first place - surely she should've just said 'no, go away, you weird old man'?"

5th over: Trinidad & Tobago 41-1 (Simmons 20, Bravo 14) need 142 Here comes Flintoff. But his first ball is leg-sidish and Simmons can help it for four leg-byes. These two are flying. The next ball elicits the definitive Chinese cut for four as Simmons steps away, and the ball after that - a leg-stump half-volley - is glanced for four more. Fred titters to himself as if he's having some kind of weird out-of-body experience. This certainly isn't the Fred we all know and love. Well, well: T&T are doing this at a canter. The last three overs have brought 37 runs and it's a good job they aren't playing for $13m.

WICKET! Simmons lbw b Collingwood 21 (43-2) Simmons goes across his stumps as he aims a premeditated sweep and misses. That would have hit middle and leg, although Nasser wonders whether it came off his glove. No matter: England have a wicket they dearly needed. "Is the few emails you're getting another thing else we can blame on the evil that is Stanford T20?" asks Max Tant. "Or is it actually due the fact that you rely on people being bored at work to email in?" Both, Max. With a heavy bias towards the latter.

6th over: Trinidad & Tobago 43-2 (Bravo 15, D Ganga 0) need 142 A much better over for England: two off it and the wicket of the dangerous Simmons. Replays suggest it was a fair decision, but still the umpires refuse to use their mate in the television box. Odd.

WICKET! Bravo c Harmison b Flintoff 15 (43-3) Two wickets in three balls and England are on top once more. Bravo steps away to do something illegal to a short ball from Flintoff and scythes it in the direction of third man, where Harmison puts that pre-innings fielding practice to good use and clings on, low lights or no low lights.

7th over: Trinidad & Tobago 47-3 (D Ganga 0, Ramdin 3) need 142 Daren Ganga turns his back on another short one and collects a single towards third man off his shoulder blade. Denesh Ramdin, star of yesterday's show, begins with a cut for two off Flintoff, then eases him past mid-off for a single. But this is a better over from Flintoff after that aberrational introductory over: four runs and a wicket.

8th over: Trinidad & Tobago 52-3 (D Ganga 2, Ramdin 5) need 142 Collingwood continues and there are singles on offer as the 50 comes up in reasonable time. But you sense Ramdin is going to have to be there at the end if Trinidad are going to win this. A bye makes it five off a tidy over.

9th over: Trinidad & Tobago 57-3 (D Ganga 4, Ramdin 7) need 142 Patel returns to the attack as Pietersen continues to juggle his bowling and the batsmen exchange singles. Another wicket now would just settle English nerves, assuming they're not all being saved up for Saturday's biggie. Five off the over just keeps the pressure on the batsmen.

WICKET! D Ganga c Swann b Collingwood 4 (62-4) Ganga plays a shocking shot to a shocking ball and is well caught by Swann, running in from deep midwicket. He proceeds to cup his ear to the crowd, which seems a little unnecessary in the circumstances. "A game so ludicrous that Naylor has given up and gone to the pub," says Ben Shepherd. "This is now the benchmark against which all other farces should be measured."

11th over: Trinidad & Tobago 67-4 (Ramdin 12, Cruickshank 2) need 142 Patel is proving hard to get away - it's nudged singles only, which will suit England fine. Five off the over: 75 needed off nine. "Just like the players' referral didn't work, this 'consultation' isn't working, because the umps' union has made its ruling," argues Peter Lucas. "Bring back Tebbit to sort out such restrictive practices."

12th over: Trinidad & Tobago 70-4 (Ramdin 13, Cruickshank 4) need 142 Collingwood is bowling 77mph wicket to wicket, which may just be the ideal formula for this pitch. Darren Cruickshank escapes the Chinese water torture by opening the face for a single to backward point, but this is good stuff from Colly, who finishes with 4-0-11-2 and hits the ridge with his final ball for good measure.

13th over: Trinidad & Tobago 83-4 (Ramdin 17, Cruickshank 6) need 142 A shocker from Patel, who hands five leg-side wides on a sliver platter with a sprig of parsley on it to the Trinidad & Tobago cause. And then he drops the ball just as he was about to celebrate a caught and bowled off Cruickshank. Shades of Herschelle Gibbs there. Very, very careless, and he follows it with a terrible leg-side wide. A poor over: 13 off it, which leaves Trinidad & Tobago needing 59 off seven.

WICKET! Cruickshank run out (Patel/Prior) 6 (83-5) Suicide from Cruickshank who dabs Ravi Bopara's first ball straight to Patel at backward point and for some reason heads off for a single. Understandably, Ramdin isn't going anywhere and Cruickshank can't get back in time. What a waste.

14th over: Trinidad & Tobago 87-5 (Ramdin 19, S Ganga 1) need 142 Tony Cozier has just pointed out that Patel's return to Prior was with his right hand. He's ambidextrous too! Meanwhile, Trinidad's hopes are entirely dependent on Ramdin as Shah jars his left knee in the soggy outfield. Ouch. That was a mini-Simon Jones at Brisbane and Shah wanders off for treatment... Fifty-five needed off six. A very big over is required.

15th over: Trinidad & Tobago 93-5 (Ramdin 22, S Ganga 5) need 142 Sherwin Ganga collects a fortuitous two off the outside edge to third man as Swann finds a bit of turn. Middlesex's Dawid Malan is on the field now: England are down to 10 fit men with Shah nursing his knee. Will Malan collect some dosh on Saturday if he's needed then? Doubt it, somehow. T&T need 49 off five.

16th over: Trinidad & Tobago 105-5 (Ramdin 27, S Ganga 10) need 142 Ramdin pulls Bopara's attempted slower ball rather too easily for four and then Prior is hit on the gloves again as the ball does unpredictable things off the pitch. Cue more blue language! And now Ganga cuts Bopara for four. Can T&T still win this? Bopara certainly isn't doing his already slim prospects of playing on Saturday much good. Twelve off the over: 37 needed off four. It's doable. "Sky's apology for the choice language picked up by the stump mic made me wonder whether Matt Prior is really Russell Brand in a bald wig," says Peter Lucas.

WICKET! S Ganga c Pietersen b Flintoff 14 (111-6) The ball after whipping Flintoff through a rather lame piece of fielding from Swann at deep square leg, Sherwin Ganga contorts the same bowler into the hands of Pietersen at short midwicket. T&T need 31 more off 21 balls.

17th over: Trinidad & Tobago 114-6 (Ramdin 30, Kelly 1) need 142 Ramdin collects a quick single to cover, where Pietersen shies and misses. Richard Kelly is known as a big left-handed hitter for a tailender, and he whips his first ball for a single. This is about the stage Middlesex fell apart last night. England are holding it together so far, but that man Ramdin's still there. Twenty-eight needed off three.

WICKET! Ramdin c Shah b Harmison (125-7) Just when it looked as if Ramdin would usher his side to a semi-famous victory, Ramdin shuffles across his stumps and tries to flick Harmison over short fine leg. Shah, back on the field now after that knee scare, clings on easily. And Flintoff will bowl the penultimate over with 17 needed off 12 balls.

WICKET! Kelly lbw b Flintoff 8 (132-8) Two balls after being badly dropped by Bell at long-on, Kelly is trapped on the crease by Flintoff. Ten needed off seven balls. But Flintoff doesn't look entirely comfortable.

19th over: Trinidad & Tobago 132-8 (Badree 1, Rampaul 0) need 142 T&T need 10 to win, nine to tie. Flintoff is chugging off the field looking rather serious. How serious is his niggle, I wonder?

19.3 overs: Harmison to Badree, dot ball: eight needed off three. A tie will result in a mini-game comprising one over each. Good God.

19.4 overs: Harmison to Badree, four to fine leg! Shot! Four needed off two. What a finish!

19.5 overs: Harmison to Badree, one run: three to win off the last ball, two to tie, one or none for defeat.

20 overs: England have won by one run: Rampaul run out (Shah/Prior) 1 (140-9) What a finish. Rampaul edged Harmison to third man, where Shah kept his head and fired in a decent return. Rampaul was never going to get back for that second run and England have won by one measly run.

Well, if Saturday is anything like that we're in for a thriller. England will argue that this was perfect practice, but that was rather too close for comfort. And we still don't know the extent of Flintoff's niggle. Ah well, thanks for the, er, emails and good night one and all. Or possibly one.